Touchpads that sucks..

Why do so many touchpads on cheap laptops sucks nowadays.
Low senitivity, low precision, clunky buttons, need to hit the button on one side, small size of the toucpad, noisy buttons, positioned wrong, uncomfortable, ...
Well many of them just isnt high quality. What's the deal, the manufacturers have made laptops for decades and still can't do it right?

 

I don't know about 'low sensitivity'... the touchpads that bother me the most are too large (have to hold my hands in the air to type), too touchy (mouse pointer moves without touching the pointer), too sticky (makes me drag items around I don't want to drag) and too smooth (leaves my fingers feeling like I've been dragging them over glass all day - oh wait! I was).

Yeah; they all have issues. And Apple's is the worst (for me).

Why doesn't Lenovo release to the world in general their awesome TrackPoint hardware and software/drivers that seem to know what you want to do, before you do it. And let you type at max speed too...

 

Because cheap is not cheerful. If you buy a 300 dollar laptop, don't expect to get anything good. We had an 229 eMachines brand new, C50, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD; and a 40/20 viewing angle, 40% color gamut AUO LCD, the most trash LCD I've ever seen.

Low sensitivity/disconnected feel is the worst, you can blame Alps touchpads for that which have been in Latitudes as far back as I can remember.

 

I can understand cheap on cheap ($$) systems - but I don't have a reason to play with those - I'm talking about systems like a HP DV7, ASUS and Dell M6400 (or above) for example.

Touchpads have gotten so big that they're ridiculous - I need to type on my systems too!